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I'll just note there isn't a direct correspondence between the kind of game I like to play and like to run, however. There's some...

Man, that's tough. For me, I'd place -PF2 as a D&D variant but on the outer fringe -Shadow of the Demon Lord is not a D&D variant...

Oh I think they're pretty powerful, he just played very aggressively and didn't back off to drink a healing potion when he should have...

Yeah, exactly. It’s clear as day, to me at least, that Daggerheart owes a lot…I mean a lot…to D&D 4E. Far more than just monster design...

My mental boundary for D&D variants is somewhere near but probably including Dungeon World.

The classes they’re revising are NOT in the core book. The revision is just the second round of playtesting for those classes. All 4...

Although, as per my long post just upthread, this is still too simple. When the GM narrates firm holds, or crumbling holds, depending...

Ok, but let's be clear on where the objection flows from. This has nothing to do with the fiction as fiction. This is an aesthetic...

See, then the problem with this is that I consider my games of Stonetop and Spire and Blades in the Dark to be just as...

I don't know any RPG where any PC can control the universe, so I'm not sure how this remark is meant to factor in. I mean, competent...

And thus the exhausting, essential conservatism. There's no looking for a path towards realizing any sort of play goal, there's just...

Right. I mean, I sometimes find that these threads have a bizarre character, where posters like @Micah Sweet accuse me of hating, or...

I'm not telling you what your view is. I'm telling you about D&D. The idea that hp, saving throws, surprise rolls, etc are...

Yes. The fact that D&D is so commonly used for a simulationist agenda (or play with no particular CA agenda that has simulationist...

This is especially important, if we're actually looking at how play works. It's obvious that many elements of the fiction, which must...